false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676065m/294354.jpg 294354 4 Reissued in an edition newly offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962, edited by George James Firmage. E. E. Cummings, along with Pound, Eliot, and Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. He is recognized as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems written in the English language and also as one of the most inventive American poets of his time. Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love. No Thanks was first published in 1935; although Cummings was by then in mid-career, he had still not achieved recognition, and the title refers ironically to publishers' rejections. No Thanks contains some of Cummings's most daring literary experiments, and it represents most fully his view of life-romantic individualism. The poems celebrate an openly felt response to the beauties of the natural world, and they give first place to love, especially sexual love, in all its manifestations. The volume includes such favorites as "sonnet entitled how to run the world)," "may I feel said he," "Jehovah buried. Satan dead," "be of love (a little)," and the now-famous grasshopper poem. Tulips & Chimneys and is 5 were reissued in 1996, XAIPE and ViVa in 1997. 1172059 1978 No Thanks total:75|5:33|4:26|3:15|2:1|1:0| 75 316 93 4 5 0 false false Sat Sep 13 10:35:12 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 10:38:07 -0700 2008
WOW. People have jokingly told me to read e e cummings, but I have stayed away from poetry in the past years much for the same reasons that I have stayed away from impressionistic art. E e cummings blew me away...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Nov 17 19:36:51 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 20:52:37 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 25 22:35:31 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 13 15:22:24 -0700 2008
I do like his grasshopper poem though. and mOOn Over tOwns mOOn. and the silent night poem, but I had to have help understanding it. The rest ha...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 20:11:20 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 01 20:12:20 -0700 2007
AND i did a presentation with another goodreads friend in 10th grade on this book. it was very "intellectual..." and it was a film. with interspersed poetry readings.]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 05 07:43:01 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 07:43:01 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Nov 01 18:39:53 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 18:39:53 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Oct 08 14:57:20 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 14:57:20 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Sep 14 16:58:26 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 16:58:26 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 17:29:14 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 17:29:14 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jul 25 08:52:12 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 08:52:12 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jul 22 12:48:16 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 12:48:16 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jul 17 08:31:40 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 08:31:40 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jul 13 14:26:10 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 14:26:10 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jun 27 10:35:08 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 10:35:08 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jun 10 11:06:17 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 11:06:17 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue May 26 16:45:53 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 16:45:53 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat May 16 09:21:12 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 09:21:12 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Apr 20 12:37:38 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 12:37:38 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Mar 21 18:36:04 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 18:36:04 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Mar 17 11:48:04 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 11:48:04 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=294354